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TL;DR: Mozilla has a new CEO and a new mission: transform Firefox into an AI browser. That has run into some snags, as Firefox users don’t seem that interested in AI. Mozilla is forging ahead, utilizing deceptive patterns (previously known as dark patterns) to nag and annoy people into enabling AI features. You can see this in the introduction of Link Previews, an extremely invasive anti-feature that exists solely to push AI into your experience.


I’m posting from Fedia and am not picking an image at all, so it definitely feels like a federation issue.
EDIT: See https://lemmy.today/post/44634337
It is a federation issue. Mbin made a change recently and I had to change some code in PieFed to stop this issue from occurring there. The Lemmy devs need to do the same, or Mbin needs to undo their change.